All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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